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Servo Drives and Motors

Friday, 01 October 2010

National Instruments (Austin, TX) has
announced the AKD servo drives and AKM
servo motors for deploying custom motion
applications to any NI real-time controller
supporting NI EtherCAT technology. The
motors are available in four different frame
sizes and feature high torque, density, and
speed ranges. The motors use low-inertia
rotors and feature low-cog, low-harmonic-distortion
magnetic design. They provide plug-and-play configuration with integrated Smart Feedback Device technology and cabling.
The servo drives feature setup and configuration through EtherCAT technology, and
provide torque loop updates in 0.67 μs, and velocity and position loops at 62.5 and 125
μs. The drives are designed for basic torque-and-velocity applications, or for indexing to
multi-axis programmable motion using graphical system design.

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